The 35-year-old ex-RAF officer was a sergeant and sometimes acting inspector for Merseyside Police at the time, Manchester Crown Court heard.
He made 20 false reports to Crimestoppers, between July 2014 and May, 2015, anonymously reporting that his target, a father-of-two, was dealing heroin and cocaine and made 15 further false allegations to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
Some of the reports were made online while he sat at his computer in Tuebrook police station in Liverpool, the court heard.
/facepalm
...Hughes, who has dyslexia, was caught after forging documents purporting to be from his Chief Superintendent and Superintendent, to be used in court - and spelled their ranks wrongly.
YCMIU...
John Parry-Jones, mitigating, said the defendant was suffering from an undiagnosed borderline personality disorder, which predisposed him to engage in impulsive and risky behaviour.
Then why the hell was he taken on by the local farce?! Did he tick someone's disability box?
Detective Chief Superintendent Karen Cummings said: 'Merseyside Police demands the highest possible standards from its officers and staff. '
Clearly, that's not true.
"'Merseyside Police demands the highest possible standards from its officers and staff. '
ReplyDeleteClearly, that's not true. "
I can well believe Mersey Police do demand the highest possible -some might even say 'superhuman'- standards. That says nothing about the standards of individual officers. I expect every copper on the Merseyside Force with kids will be as disgusted by this officer's behaviour as I am. Hopefully he'll go down for a long time,then what he did isn't 'arrogant' or 'disabled' but evil (or maybe 'ill').
"Merseyside Police demands the highest possible standards from its officers and staff." Yeeees, indeed.
ReplyDeleteAccording to WC Jaded, and now Detective Chief Superintendent Karen Cummings, there can be no whitewash at the...erm...there is no corruption at Merseyside.
Every one of those criminal convictions of scouserplod were 'fit-ups' and the 'Rogues Gallery' of Merseyside Filth, which has been posted on the internet, is just plain libel. *Coughs*
Arrogant -- the filth? Nah, you can't be right.
ReplyDeleteMore pointless undecipherable nonsense Melvin. I don't work for Merseyside police so I have no idea if there is corruption there. I don't make excuses for every police officer and this idiot seems to have gotten what he deserves. I only come on here to give some balance against the huge anti-police bias that most of the posters have.
ReplyDeleteJaded
'Merseyside Police demands the highest possible standards from its officers and staff. '
ReplyDeleteClearly, that's not true.
Perhaps it is true, if one takes into account the demographics of the area from which Merseyside police would be recruiting.
Lay off the alphabet soup, Jaded. It's bad for your vowel movements.
ReplyDeleteWhen you consider that there are several thousand Police officers in the UK, it is a raving certainty that some will not act in the best interests of the public, whether it be criminal activity or simply negligent or irrational behaviour. Unfortunately, befcause these actions are the more newsworthy, these are the ones that make the most impact in the media. There was very little mention of the Surrey Police officer who jumped into the river Thames to save a woman attempting suicide (you miss commenting on that one, Melv), or the Lincolnshire Police officer who ran 4 marathons in 10 days to raise money for a chiuldrens hospice (ditto Julia) and then there was the Police officer, armed with a 14 inch metal bar who was killed trying to stop a Muslim terrrorist (not a lot of praise for him from Melv and the trolls.
ReplyDeleteThere is a bloke in our town, whose first name is Melvin, who has been convicted of paedophilic crimes. Using MTG's logic, that means that every person called Melvin is a paedophile. So, the next time, he comments on this, or any other blog, I shall assume there is an underlying aim to have little kiddies contact him to either agree with him or discuss how his version of society is going.
I have mentioned before that Police officers are ordinary people who are often asked to carry out actions which are out of the ordinary. By their very nature, they are subject to abuse from all levels of society and, for whatever reason, they are rarely allowed to defend themselves outside of a courtroom. I have known some Police officers who I am surprised were allowed to join the human race, never mind my Police force, but I also knew many who I knew would back me up in public order situations, and they did.
At the moment, the residents of Birmingham are having to live with thousands of uncollected bin bags of rubbish and waste due to strike action. Why doesn't Melv and his trolls have a go at these strikers? Is it because their individual names or addresses are not known to the public, or is it because Melv and his ilk are so used to spouting, and living in, shit that they haven't really noticed?
So, kiddie fiddler, do your worst, or would that be your best?
"Melv and the Trolls". A brilliant name for an outspoken group - vacancies for their act in Mosul and Pyonnyang if they're interested.
Penseivat
" I only come on here to give some balance against the huge anti-police bias that most of the posters have."
ReplyDeleteHave you ever sat down and genuinely considered WHY so many people these days are biased against the police? Why, in these days of genuinely reducing crime levels the police should be so badly regarded by so many people, often the very sort who one would expect to support the police 100%? I am as middle class as they come, self employed, public school educated, law abiding etc etc. Yet I wouldn't believe a word a policeman said to me. Why? Because I've seen too many examples where the police lie to the public. Make up the law. Ignore laws because they don't fancy enforcing them. Lie when a colleague breaks the law.
Now its entirely possible that this just reflects the failing standards of moral behaviour in society as a whole, and the idea of being upstanding and honest is merely as lacking in the police force as everywhere else. But it still doesn't make the behaviour of the current police force right.
The thing is that it used to be only those who had actual contact with the police on a day to day basis knew they were such liars. Criminals always knew what the true nature of the police was like. Nowadays everything can be photographed, and videoed and recorded. News that would only have made the local paper can be read by someone on the other side of the globe. So we can all see the evidence, that was hidden before.
And of course most recently there's been the decision for the police to drink deeply of the cool aid of social justice, which has alienated vast swathes of the public who disagree with such attitudes. The police are now seen as thought police, enforcing the criminalising of peoples ideas, thoughts and opinions. Not only that, seemingly taking great pleasure in so doing. The police have decided to get into the politics business, is it any surprise thats riled the majority of the population who don't like the brand of politics they've chosen to hang their caps on?
Penseivat-spot on comments but they will no impact on the Huddersfield buffoon.
ReplyDeleteJim-some interesting points but far to much generalising. In my opinion-not fact just opinion like yours-most people support the police. It seems the antis shout louder and get the most publicity. Every bad thing one of my colleagues does makes headline news, rarely do the brave things. It's the way the media is and that's sad. You are far too easily manipulated by the press and TV who have a built-in bias against us. To the actual officer on the street like me-not the senior officer idiots-it makes little difference in our day to day business.
Jaded.
" Every bad thing one of my colleagues does makes headline news, rarely do the brave things. It's the way the media is and that's sad. You are far too easily manipulated by the press and TV who have a built-in bias against us."
ReplyDeleteThats a bit like Tesco saying 'Forget about the very small number of people who have died after eating poisoned food we sold them, what about all the thousands of people who bought delicious food and were fine?'.
We don't judge an organisation by balancing its successes vs its failures, particularly when the failures are in the very thing the organisation is set up to do. Airlines are judged by the number of crashes, not the fact that the flights arrive on time every time, apart from when they crash. The police are there to uphold the law, if they fail to do that then they have fundamentally failed in their one main objective. Responding with 'Look over here we did something wonderful!' just doesn't make up for that failure.
File under 'Notes to assist police readers':
ReplyDelete'Trolling' is defined as purposely posting something to get a response for the sake of a laugh or attention (or being a libelous arse on the internet because you can, Penseivat).
It is quite obvious from a scan of their posts that most police, particularly the retired variants, are cerebrally challenged and become rapidly confused. The quality of plod grammar, spelling and punctuation are good indicators of their inability to think and process information. Such handicaps will often result in calling another person 'troll' to sidestep intelligent debate or to foolishly masquerade as repartee. Beyond the magistrates courts, there are some venues where it is important for police to supplement their wild assertions with a few nuggets of convincing evidence. Finally, and I hope this does not fly over plod heads, the real art in 'trolling' is perfected by those not recognised as trolls.
'Evenin' all'.
"Hopefully he'll go down for a long time..."
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he'll go down at all.
"I only come on here to give some balance against the huge anti-police bias..."
If such exists (it's mostly legitimate criticism) it's 'more in sorrow than in anger', Jaded.
"Unfortunately, befcause these actions are the more newsworthy, these are the ones that make the most impact in the media. "
Unfortunately true. But those examples you give are brave, yes, but people doing their job. And 'person does their job' is as newsworthy as 'dog bites man'.
"Have you ever sat down and genuinely considered WHY so many people these days are biased against the police? Why, in these days of genuinely reducing crime levels the police should be so badly regarded by so many people, often the very sort who one would expect to support the police 100%?"
ReplyDeleteSpot on, every....single...word!
"In my opinion-not fact just opinion like yours-most people support the police. It seems the antis shout louder and get the most publicity."
I work in an office full of middle-class professionals. Not one has had a good word for the police, several have been badly let down in reporting crime. Multiply this by every other office out there, and it should worry you.